Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control of the subsidiary Harvey had set up in Montana for his aluminum project? Anaconda would; it bought 95% of Harvey's subsidiary and got Harvey's contract for electric power from the new Hungry Horse Dam. Harvey, in turn, was assured of a good chunk of the new aluminum produced for his own fabricating plants...
...quick way to boost copper imports, either. The U.S. last May shelved its 2?-a-lb. tariff, and agreed to pay a premium price of 27½? for Chilean copper, which accounts for most U.S. imports. But the U.S. also had to agree to let Chile sell a big chunk of her copper in Europe and elsewhere, where the price has been as high as 50? a Ib. Result: imports have dropped...
...biggest chunk of employment in the college is provided by the dining hall, called the Commons. Each year over 250 students--mostly freshmen and sophomores--earn between $300 and $440 each by acting as waiters or servers in the Commons where underclassmen eat. (Juniors and seniors take meals at their clubs...
...today, the CCA looks like a favorite in the race. For one thing, it has a battling president, James F. Mahan, a former F.B.I. man and presently a Boston attorney. He will probably attract a good chunk of Cambridge's Irish vote...
ULRICH HABERLAND, 50, is the temperamental boss of Leverkusen's huge Bayer works (biggest single chunk of the I. G. Farben chemical empire now being decartelized). Ex-Nazi son of an East German clergyman, he now claims to be apolitical. He is the reviving chemical industry's chief business strategist...